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<a name="quickbook"></a>Chapter 51. Quickbook 1.7</h2></div>
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<span class="firstname">Joel</span> <span class="surname">de Guzman</span>
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<span class="firstname">Eric</span> <span class="surname">Niebler</span>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook.html#quickbook.intro">Introduction</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/change_log.html">Change Log</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/command_line.html">Command Line Usage</a></span></dt>
<dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/command_line.html#quickbook.command_line.options">Command Line Options</a></span></dt></dl></dd>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax.html">Syntax Summary</a></span></dt>
<dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax.html#quickbook.syntax.comments">Comments</a></span></dt></dl></dd>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/structure.html">Document Structure</a></span></dt>
<dd><dl>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/structure.html#quickbook.syntax.structure.docinfo">Document
      Info</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/structure.html#quickbook.syntax.structure.section">Sections</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html">Phrase Level Elements</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.font_styles">Font
      Styles</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.replaceable">Replaceable</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.quotations">Quotations</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.simple_formatting">Simple
      formatting</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.role">Role</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.inline_code">Inline
      code</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.code_blocks">Code
      blocks</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.source_mode">Source
      Mode</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.line_break">line-break</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.anchors">Anchors</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.links">Links</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.anchor_links">Anchor
      links</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.refentry_links">refentry
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.code_links">Code
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.single_char_escape">Single
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.unicode_escape">Unicode
      escape</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.images">Images</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.footnotes">Footnotes</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.macro_expansion">Macro
      Expansion</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.template_expansion">Template
      Expansion</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/phrase.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.cond">Conditional
      Generation</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html">Block Level Elements</a></span></dt>
<dd><dl>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.xinclude">xinclude</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.paragraphs">Paragraphs</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.lists">Lists</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.escape_back">Escaping
      Back To QuickBook</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.preformatted">Preformatted</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.blockquote">Blockquote</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.admonitions">Admonitions</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.headings">Headings</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.generic_heading">Generic
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.variable_lists">Variable
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/syntax/block.html#quickbook.syntax.block.block">Plain
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/versions.html">Language Versions</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/versions.html#quickbook.versions.upgrading">Upgrading to a new version</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/versions.html#quickbook.versions.stable">Stable Versions</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/versions.html#language_versions.1_6">Quickbook 1.6</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/versions.html#language_versions.1_7">Quickbook 1.7</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/install.html">Installation and configuration</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/install.html#quickbook.install.macosx">Mac OS X</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/install.html#quickbook.install.windows">Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista,
      7</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/install.html#quickbook.install.linux">Debian, Ubuntu</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/editors.html">Editor Support</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/editors.html#quickbook.editors.scite">Scintilla Text Editor</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/editors.html#editor_support.kde_support">KDE Support</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="quickbook/ref.html">Quick Reference</a></span></dt>
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<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
<a name="quickbook.intro"></a>Introduction</h2></div></div></div>
<div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote">
<p>
        <span class="bold"><strong><span class="emphasis"><em><span class="quote">“<span class="quote">Why program by hand in five days what
        you can spend five years of your life automating?</span>”</span></em></span></strong></span>
      </p>
<p>
        -- Terrence Parr, author ANTLR/PCCTS
      </p>
</blockquote></div>
<p>
      Well, QuickBook started as a weekend hack. It was originally intended to be
      a sample application using <a href="http://spirit.sourceforge.net" target="_top">Spirit</a>.
      What is it? What you are viewing now, this documentation, is autogenerated
      by QuickBook. These files were generated from one master:
    </p>
<div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
        <a href="../../tools/quickbook/doc/quickbook.qbk" target="_top">quickbook.qbk</a>
      </p></blockquote></div>
<p>
      Originally named QuickDoc, this funky tool that never dies, evolved into a
      funkier tool thanks to Eric Niebler who resurrected the project making it generate
      <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook.html" target="_top">BoostBook</a>
      instead of HTML. The <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook.html" target="_top">BoostBook</a>
      documentation format is an extension of <a href="http://www.docbook.org/" target="_top">DocBook</a>,
      an SGML or XML based format for describing documentation.
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<th align="left">Tip</th>
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
        You don't need to know anything about <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook.html" target="_top">BoostBook</a>
        or <a href="http://www.docbook.org/" target="_top">DocBook</a> to use QuickBook.
        A basic understanding of <a href="http://www.docbook.org/" target="_top">DocBook</a>
        might help, but shouldn't be necessary. For really advanced stuff you will
        need to know <a href="http://www.docbook.org/" target="_top">DocBook</a>, but you
        can ignore it at first, and maybe continue to do so.
      </p></td></tr>
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<p>
      QuickBook is a WikiWiki style documentation tool geared towards C++ documentation
      using simple rules and markup for simple formatting tasks. QuickBook extends
      the WikiWiki concept. Like the WikiWiki, QuickBook documents are simple text
      files. A single QuickBook document can generate a fully linked set of nice
      HTML and PostScript/PDF documents complete with images and syntax- colorized
      source code.
    </p>
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      Features include:
    </p>
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          generate <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boostbook.html" target="_top">BoostBook</a>
          xml, to generate HTML, PostScript and PDF
        </li>
<li class="listitem">
          simple markup to link to Doxygen-generated entities
        </li>
<li class="listitem">
          macro system for simple text substitution
        </li>
<li class="listitem">
          simple markup for italics, bold, preformatted, blurbs, code samples, tables,
          URLs, anchors, images, etc.
        </li>
<li class="listitem">
          automatic syntax coloring of code samples
        </li>
<li class="listitem">
          CSS support
        </li>
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